Second Party OF THE SALVIO GAMBIT,
Reading edition
WITH ONE BACK GAME,
On the Seventh Move of the White.
1.
W. The king’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The same.
2.
W. King’s bishop’s pawn 2 squares.
B. The pawn takes the pawn.
3.
W. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
B. King’s knight’s pawn 2 squares.
4.
W. King’s bishop at his queen’s bishop’s 4th.
B. King’s knight’s pawn 1 square.
5.
W. King’s knight at the adverse king’s 4th square.(a)
B. The queen gives check.
(a) You might castle at the fifth move, and suffer him to take your knight; you then take his knight’s pawn with your queen, and depend for reprisals on attacking his king’s bishop’s pawn. All your pieces would easily get out, and before he could secure his king, it would be easy for you to regain some advantage.
6.
W. The king at his bishop’s square.
B. King’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.
7.
W. Queen’s knight at his bishop’s 3d.(b) ☜
B. Queen’s pawn 1 square.(c)
8.
W. King’s knight at his queen’s 3d.(d)
B. King’s pawn 1 square.
(b) If you had taken his king’s bishop’s pawn with your knight, he would, by pushing his queen’s pawn two squares, have gained two pieces for his king’s rook. As the same pawn might have been taken by the bishop, and check given at the same time, it will form the subject of a back game.
(c) Had he brought out his queen’s knight to his bishop’s third, you must have taken his knight with yours, and then offered queen for queen at your king’s square.
(d) Had you taken his king’s pawn with your knight, he would have left his rook exposed, playing his king’s knight to his rook’s fourth, as a prelude to a double attack on your king and rook, which would throw you into a disagreeable situation.
9.
W. King’s knight’s pawn 1 square.(e)
B. The queen gives check.
10.
W. The king at his bishop’s 2d.
B. The queen gives check.
11.
W. The king at his 3d square.
B. The king’s bishop gives check.
12.
W. The king’s knight covers the check.
B. Queen’s bishop’s pawn 1 square.(f)
13.
W. The queen at its king’s bishop’s square.
B. The queen takes the queen.
(e) Had you taken the pawn with yours, he would, by taking with his king’s knight’s pawn, have opened the line for his queen’s bishop; by which you would be exposed to the hazard of losing your queen, or receiving check-mate.
(f) He plays this pawn to prevent his queen being forced. (See the situation at the thirteenth move of the second back game of the first gambit, volume the first.) And should he castle, or otherwise vary his play, it would be your game to propose queen for queen, at your king’s bishop’s square.
14.
W. The king’s bishop takes the queen.
B. King’s bishop at his knight’s 2d.(g)
15.
W. King’s rook’s pawn 1 square.
B. King’s rook’s pawn 2 squares.
16.
W. Queen’s pawn 2 squares.(h)
(g) It was of consequence to withdraw his bishop, for by pushing your king’s rook’s pawn two squares, you would have broken all his pawns.
(h) From this period the endeavour of each must be, to bring out the pieces as soon as possible; but the white must persist in not taking the king’s knight’s pawn with his rook’s pawn; and, though the black have the advantage in numbers, by a pawn, the situation of the white will then be preferable.
BACK GAME,
On the Seventh Move of the White.
7.
W. The king’s bishop takes the pawn, and gives check.
B. The king at his 2d square.(a)
8.
W. King’s bishop at his queen’s bishop’s 4th.
B. Queen’s pawn 1 square.(b)
9.
W. King’s knight at his queen’s 3d.
B. King’s knight at his rook’s 4th.
(a) Had he withdrawn his king to his queen’s square, you should have pushed your queen’s pawn to its extent, and you would have obtained a firm position; but by this move, he dictates the retreat of your king’s bishop, otherwise by pushing his queen’s pawn he would gain a piece.
(b) He had two other ways of playing; the one, to take your king’s pawn with his knight, on which you play your queen to your king’s second square, letting him give double check with his knight, that sacrificing your rook for the knight, you might win the game. The other way would be, to transport his king’s knight to his rook’s fourth, in which case you ought to propose an exchange of queen’s at your king’s square.
10.
W. The queen at her king’s square.
B. The queen at her king’s bishop’s 3d.(c)
11.
W. King’s pawn 1 square.
B. The queen’s pawn takes the pawn.
12.
W. The queen takes the pawn and gives check.
B. The queen takes the queen.
13.
W. The king’s knight takes the queen.(d)
(c) Had he given double check with his knight, you ought to have withdrawn your king to his knight’s square, and then he would lose a piece; and had he taken your queen, you ought to have taken with your knight, to facilitate the bringing out your pieces.
(d) In the present situation the white seem to have the best of the game.